Butterfly Mouse Pads

If you are a fan of butterflies you are going to love this idea. How about creating butterfly mouse pads from your artwork? There are many opportunities for selling photography and art online. I have made friends with photo artist friends who have chosen many that I have never even heard of.

Each of these places offer various means of delivering your art to customers. One thing you must remember in going this route is that you are not likely to make a ton of money. You can make money putting your art on these hosting sites. I'm going to tell you a little about some of my favorites in a minute.

Butterfly Mouse Pads

I used two photographs to create this mouse pad. The butterflies are actually the same butterfly placed as clip art into the flower photo. Now creating a mouse pad out of this digital art was easy. I use cafe press to host the product. Cafe Press is one of those places I mentioned where you can host your art. You are free to set your prices as high or as low as you want. You just have to set prices above the base price to make any profit.

If you like this butterfly mouse pad, you can click on the image to be taken to the purchase page. To see more butterfly mouse pad pictures visit here. This brings me to another point about using your photo art to sell products online.

Don't expect to just upload your art and let the hosting company do the rest for you. Although most offer to market your work in their market place, you can do a simple search for any product and notice the competition you are up against.

So what's the solution? Do your own marketing. I've mentioned several times that having a web site of your own is the number one method for getting your name out there. And when a site is done right you will soon be selling photography online far above any competition you may come across.

Places to Sell Your Art as Products

I mentioned CafePress.com first. You can choose between a Pro site or start out with a free basic store front. In free store front you are limited to one of each product available. But you are permitted to open as many stores as you like. So with the help of that website I was telling you about and a little bit of imagination you can have a full fledged store of each of your favorite products and photos.

Next on my list would be ArtWanted.com! In order to sell products through them you must have a Pro account. But I must admit the opportunity to give your visitors a better price and still make almost as good a commission is better. Another good thing about ArtWanted is you can open a free account, upload 3 images and link to another website such as say your gallery on Artist Rising. The best way to take advantage of Artwanted for this respect is to visit other member images and make comments creating a following.

To your success,

Sally

P.S. I almost forgot the most important part of this message. If you are looking for the best place to host your own web site be sure and check out SBI! Like they say, "Why build just another website, when you can build a successful business."